FIGHT BACK, YOU BASTARDS

The Brexit referendum (and the subsequent manoeuvres of the UK’s political parties to avoid its consequences) shows that we have come to the end of democracy. Politicians brush aside the petitions that tens of thousands vote for, or pay only perfunctory attention, patting us on the head and telling us to run along. They present us with party manifestos that promise binding commitments to various policies and then when they are elected to carry out those promises they simply ignore them. Vote Left, vote Right. Result? No change.

In 2010 Cameron promised to limit immigration He even signed a pledge telling us that if he failed we could sack him. For six years the UK had a Home Secretary who promised to reduce immigration to tens of thousands, rather than the hundreds of thousands that were arriving. Now we have a Prime Minister who made the same promise but her current Home Secretary has just announced that he is abandoning that policy. The result? Hundreds of thousands still arriving. No change.

The biggest vote in the history of our country was to leave the EU, no ifs, no buts, out of the customs union, out of the single market, no more unfettered freedom of movement, Leave meant Leave. The effort from both sides of the debate was prodigious, from the highest level TV debates to the humble efforts of letterbox stuffers and doorstep visitors. Result? Lies, cheating, betrayal. No change there then.

The journalists who should be monitoring and exposing the failure of our appointed masters to live up to their promises, to tell the truth, are bought and paid for themselves or ideologically possessed by outdated political battles. Worse, many are sold, soul and conscience, to rich men who care nothing for our country or our people.

What the hell is going on?

If we can’t trust the promises on which we choose to vote, what control do we have? If no-one exposes the lies, how are we to decide? Our rulers promise the world and deliver what they have already decided they want to deliver. The ballot box has failed not just because our political class has failed but because there are millions who vote for a label, not caring to look behind the label to see the rotting reality, to see that the label is itself a lie. So what power do we have, those of us who care not for labels but for integrity, for delivered promises, who care for the truth? What influence can we exert to steer our destiny?

We have money.

As individuals we have little economic power, just a few thousand pounds a year we can redirect here or there. We’re not like George Soros who can put billions into causes that catch his plutocratic fancy, but we are not individuals, we are legion. In the case of the referendum we are 17,400,000. Judging by the responses we are getting at our Brexit market stalls a second referendum to leave the EU would attract a larger majority. Let’s call it 18 million people who would vote to leave. If everyone of that 18 million spent a thousand pounds less on EU goods then the result is stunning – £18,000,000,000.

Let’s start small. Let’s first decide that we will appeal over the heads of the German government – those intransigent and power-seeking puppet-masters who seem to delight in humiliating our naive and incompetent negotiators – and speak directly to those who design, manufacture and sell German products. Why should we support a major industry in a country which is going out of its way to damage the UK and reduce our capabilities as an industrial rival? Let’s stop buying new German cars. In the UK we’ll be ignored by our own government, but in Germany BMW will be pulling the strings as soon as their UK sales figures dip.

After BMW we can boycott other EU targets, buy Australian wine instead of French, Scotch or Norfolk malt whisky instead of Cognac, Kenyan vegetables, English cheeses. A small change here, a small change there and we could make a difference of millions working in industries that have the ear of the EU. It may be a small weapon, a weak response to the overbearing power of the money men and the bureaucrats who are in their pockets, but what choice do we have? It’s fight, you bastards, or it’s surrender. I know which I prefer.

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Julian Flood
on February 9, 2019 at 6:00 pm

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JF

English Patriot
on February 9, 2019 at 6:15 am

“Buying a new BMW car is an unpatriotic act.”

What a weak and pathetic slogan.

The slogans must be more forceful, passionate, and rooted in patriotic fervor!

“Driving an Audi or a BMW or a Mercedes or a Porsche or a VolksWagen is like driving with Hitler!”

“Driving an Alfa Romeo, a Ferrari, a Fiat, Lamborghini, or a Maserati is like driving with Mussolini!”

“When you drive a Nissan or a Subaru or a Toyota, remember the treachery of Pearl Harbor!”

Leaving aside the question whether this is the morally right or just strategy to pursue — it isn’t going to work. People are driven by self-interest. If a product is better, cheaper, etc. than another, they will buy it. You will never convince large numbers of people to forego buying a product which they prefer and buy another product which serves them less well, to achieve a political end (if the other product served them equally well, they would be buying it already). And this is thankfully so; this is how the free market works.

Norman'
on February 7, 2019 at 4:32 pm

Older readers may well remember the ‘Im backing Britain’ campaign of the late sixties, it had a lot of publicity but very short term results and soon petered out, there were similar calls to boycott French goods during the Falkland war and again following 9/11. And more recently there were calls to boycott Morrisons Supermarkets after management prevented an employee from wearing a ‘poppy’.
I can’t see that any had any effect, bit like voting lots of words but on polling day people vote as they always have done.
Now a shortage of fuel or some other disruption ( even short term ) then watch the narrative change.

Our problem is not with the EU but with the politicians we elect. We need to take the big money out of politics – and UKIP is the only party that is not in hock to its paymasters. Why don’t we trade on that?

Better yet, when we’re out then they will be even better value — I drove a loan Mazda once, lovely ride, gearbox, responsive engine. We’ve been looking at a 3.

JF

Kevin Baverstock
on February 7, 2019 at 2:07 pm

Julian is right of course. Start with wine. Australian wine is excellent (I think better) As for cars, Nissan UK or Toyota UK models would be a good choice rather than BMW, whose history goes like this…

////A wide range of aero engines was ultimately produced for the Luftwaffe, including one of the most powerful engines of the time – the BMW 801. Over 30,000 aero engines were manufactured through 1945, as well as over 500 jet engines such as the BMW 003. To enable this massive production effort, forced labor was utilized, consisting primarily of prisoners from concentration camps such as Dachau. By the end of the war, almost 50% of the 50,000-person workforce at BMW AG consisted of prisoners from concentration camps.////

Norman'
on February 7, 2019 at 4:19 pm

A major shareholder in Nissan is Renault which is owned by the French state. They apparently bought shares in Renault which saved it from the sort of disaster that the then Labour government allowed to happen to Rover after the BMW / Phoenix ownership. But then who cares about thousands of manufacturing jobs in the West Midlands. Then there was the emission problems with out favourite ‘peoples car’ the VW, that and it’s chequered history , never seemed to effect sales in the U.K and as for Japanese manufacturers Mitsubishi were responsible for the manufacturer of 10.000 Zero fighters in W.W.2

Biscotte
on February 7, 2019 at 1:34 pm

I rather like the Yellow Vest approach – necklacing of speed cameras. It is just another (large) revenue generation machine.
They also had a 10 mph drive-a-thon by ambulances and similar on city ring roads. It may not be direct revenue deprivation, but it costs a fortune in police overtime to marshal and to redirect traffic.

Get your worn out tyres ready. There are plenty, shed by lorries, all over the country (that’s what you pay taxes for clearing up as well as potholes).
Plus old cooking oil, old engine oil, drop of petrol and identify a main thoroughfare I’m told.

Another is taking money out of banks on one day at about the same time. (Oh, err you do? . . then wait till Friday at six p.m.).
Go back to using cash for everything, thereby stopping financial surveillance.

Agreed about the wine.
Some things are difficult for the Spousal Unit. When there are only Remainian carrots in the shops, then what says she?

Kevin Baverstock
on February 7, 2019 at 2:10 pm

I checked out the ‘take money out the banks’ idea with a proper economist. By all accounts it can only work if millions of people do it, a few thousand will not make a difference.

Jack Thomas
on February 9, 2019 at 12:40 am

I can just about remember a time when we only ate vegetables and fruit that were in season. Few imported ones from the other side of the world. We didn’t suffer for it and the start of the season for particular fruit was something to look forward to. My uncle in London had an allotment which provided all the vegetables his family needed. No doubt those allotments have now been built over.

Jake Bennett
on February 7, 2019 at 8:58 am

But what about the enemy within? This initiative does not deal with this. The British motor car industry executives want to remain in the EU so buying a British car does not change a thing.

Target British manufacturers and service providers who are outspoken and actively seeking to overturn Brexit – they are the ones to silence. Bransons Virgin, Walkers Crisps, Cobra Beer these are the ones who should be targetted.
Someone suggeste cashing in your premium bonds which will hit a cash strapped treasury hard.

It is the British political and corporate establishment who are the snakes in the grass.

Jim R
on February 7, 2019 at 8:30 am

I have started, Julian, and quite a while ago. Prefer Chilean to French, can’t afford a BMW but my next s/h car if I buy one, will not be French, my favourite cheese is English, although I do buy other UK ones, eat Cox’s apples, at the moment SA plums but this will change due to the white farmer issue.
It’s not much but a start. Incidentally my Paypal account is lying virtually unused since it came to light that they were poking their noses into UK politics by restricting certain accounts. I used to use this as a preferance all the time but they lost over £500 over Christmas alone.

It is worth the effort.

Jack Thomas
on February 7, 2019 at 8:14 am

The Boycott is a wonderful tool when enough support it. We should extend it beyond the EU to the businesses of the invader. I used to enjoy a frequent “Indian” curry or even the occasional kebab. Now I avoid them like the plague.

Ceri Jayes
on February 9, 2019 at 7:15 pm

Excellent. On Thursday evening we went shopping for household goods in Trago Mills followed by a curry at the Newton Abbot Wetherspoons pub and then drove home in our Nissan Qashqai. (Couldn’t quite muster enthusiasm to Dyson vac the house…but the spirit was willing to contemplate the idea!)

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